{"id":37449,"date":"2018-03-30T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37449"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T17:37:35","slug":"donald-trump-actually-admitted-hes-a-flaming-idiot-four-times-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37449","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Actually Admitted He’s a Flaming Idiot Four Times Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past two years has been a veritable circus as Donald Trump clowned his way through the presidency. He’s proven beyond a shadow of doubt that he is utterly incapable of governing. His pathological lying and relentless boasting are the hallmarks of his oratory. And for some reason he insists demonstrating that he’s a complete imbecile who fails to understand the simplest concepts.<\/p>\n

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However, even with that record of buffoonery, Trump outdid himself in his speech yesterday that was supposedly about infrastructure. He spent maybe two minutes out of more than sixty on that topic, squeezed in between embarrassing exaltations of himself and infantile insults of his perceived enemies. But what distinguished this speech more than anything else were his own admissions of stupidity. It was a startling thing to watch. Here are a few of the things that Trump needed to make sure that everyone knew he couldn’t grasp:<\/p>\n

He Doesn’t Know What a Community College Is:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know what that means, a community college. Call it vocational and technical. People know what that means. They don\u2019t know what a community college means […] and I tell people, call it vocational from now on, it’s a great word, it’s a great word. Call it vocational and technical perhaps, but use vocational, because that’s what it’s all about. People know what that means, we don\u2019t know what a community college means.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who doesn’t know what “community college”<\/em> means? The phrase is its own definition. It’s a college that’s in the community. Is that so hard? What’s more, it is not the same as a vocational or technical school. Vocational schools generally focus on a specific skill such as nursing or mechanics. Community colleges are more like conventional four-year institutions with a broad range of study. They award Associates Degrees and are often starting points to pursue higher education. But Trump is fixated on the word “vocational”<\/em> most likely because he just learned it. He has done the same thing with other words like “comprehensive”<\/em> and “reciprocal”<\/em> when those entered his vocabulary. He doesn’t realize that the rest of America already knows these words, or he assumes they’re as dumb as he is.<\/p>\n

He Doesn’t Know That His Wall is Not Being Built:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We\u2019re getting that sucker built. That\u2019s what I do. I build. I was always very good at building. It was my best thing. I think better than being president, I was always very good at building.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Somebody showed Trump a picture of a wall under construction and told him it was the border wall that he has been yammering about for two years. It wasn’t. It was a part of a wall in California that was undergoing an upgrade that was approved by the Obama administration. However. Trump’s assessment of being better at building than being president is an easy call. Not because he was ever good at building, but because he’s better at anything than he is at being president.<\/p>\n

He Doesn’t Know How Judges are Made:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, when I got in, we had over 100 federal judges that weren\u2019t appointed. I don\u2019t know why Obama left that. It was like a big beautiful present to all of us. Why the hell did he leave that? Maybe he got complacent?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why? Because the Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, deliberately refused to hold hearings or confirmations for President Obama’s nominees. This wasn’t a secret tactic that might have eluded Trump’s attention. McConnell did it openly and was criticized harshly for his perversion of democracy. But Trump thinks the vacant seats were the result of that black president being lazy. Cause you know how “those”<\/em> people are.<\/p>\n

Finally, Trump took to Twitter for another display of ignorance wrapped in a critique of one of his favorite foils. His tweet accused Jeff Bezos, owner of both Amazon and the Washington Post, of failing to pay taxes and exploiting the Post Office:<\/p>\n

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I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n